The farthest from home

  

The farthest point from home that we reached on April 23rd during what ended up being an 8-hour, 250-mile wildflower-seeking circuit west of Austin was along FM 152 a few miles into Mason County. As had been true for some land on Llano County Rd. 106 a little earlier, the land at our last stop wasn’t fenced—in fact a local resident who happened to drive by stopped to tell me to be on my guard for any loose bulls wandering about. Duly alerted, I still relished the freedom from barbed wire to move around and compose pictures as I wished.

 

 

 

 

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Some people in my country not only condone racism, they’re working to institutionalize it, even as they hypocritically prattle about “dismantling institutional racism.” For yet another example, you can read Neetu Arnold’s May 3rd article “Illinois’s Plan to Fund Public Universities on the Basis of Race,” with subtitle “Schools with abysmal graduation rates would get more money simply for enrolling minorities.”

 

 

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